Over time we have had to institute
some specific rules to deal with problems that have come up and
to keep things orderly. These were presented to subscribers when
they sent the subscribe command and they agreed to them when
they replied to the questionnaire.
First and foremost, we go by
the Scout Oath and Law. The listowners also feel that this is
not something you turn on and off. Meaning, the standards here
apply across the board. Further meaning, don't expect to stay
a member if you have a habit of making good on your patch-L trades,
but let the Scout Oath and Law slip on trades made at a trade-o-ree.
Really.
ALL
Commercial Activity Prohibited
You must not make any offer
to sell any items or otherwise undertake commercial activity
in any post to Patch-L. For the time being we are keeping with the rules of our original
host SUNY-Buffalo. Doing so can result in your immediate removal from
the list. Saying you have an item for sale but not listing the
price is still a violation.
Improper
Behavior/SPAM
Any improper behavior on this
list will result in your immediate removal. Improper behavior
includes public flaming, posting unnecessarily long listings
of available stuff, offers to sell items (If you want to sell,
do so via private e-mail), complaints from other users regarding
improper conduct (including private flames to other members that
are not in keeping with the Scout Oath and Law), or any violation
of the Scout Oath & Law. Also, please do not reveal secrets
of OA ceremonies or discuss non-patch issues.
Trim your replies drastically. Subscribers who reply to the
entire list and continually include irrelevant part of the message
(address headers, patch-L footers, signature lines, non-pertinent
part of the message, etc.) will find themselves set to moderate and their messages discarded until they figure out how
to stop wasting bandwidth. When you fail to do this, it's like
filling the bathtub just to get a glass of water. Don't do it.
In the alternative, Listowners may set your account to digest
so you see the full effect of your and other's sloppiness all
at one time.
Posts of long list of items is prohibited.
Every line eats up bandwidth and space. If you have long lists to share
- covernt them to a paragraph or post them on a web page and include a
link.
Consolidate your posts and use subject lines.
You don't have the right to fill everyone's mailbox with several notes,
when they could be combined - use the subject line to describe your
contents. Members who continually ignore this rule will be set to
moderation and all posts after the first may be discarded. If the
behavior continues, you may be removed.
Patch-L is set to private for a reason: we don't like spam,
we never have, and our members don't want it on the list. Therefore,
if you post anything to the list not related to the topic of
this list, your rights will be revoked immediately. Chain letters,
requests to go to web sites to sign petitions are particularly
not welcome. We all have our causes, but Patch-L is not available
to you to espouse it.
